, 1887-08-17
TOW TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.


And, lOSluB nS pOSS pcEpchuiCuldL'
AIIghts on his northeast auricular.
The Evening Tribune celebrated its Sd
birthday yesterday.
A number of high school pupils ex-
curted to Chalk Bluffs yesterday.
The entry books fo- the racing depart
ment of the Wyoming fair will be opened
Sept. l.
Bargainsl bargainsl greater than ever
at V. Bakers, successor to Cowhick &
Whitcomb.
VIM. Strong. who attempted suicide
some time since, has been liberated from
the county jail.
There was a pleasant lawn sociable at
the Twentieth street residence of T. F.
Durbin last night.
Judge j. r. Whitehead is now duly
installed as deputy clerk of court for the
first judicial district.
Last chance. Only three days more of
the FIRE sale. l will make lower prices
than ever. V. Baker.
1t is said that Cheyenne warrants can
be disposed of more advantageously in
Denver than in this city.
Three hundred and twenty acres of coal
land have been transferred to claimants at
the land office this week. The price paid
was $40 an acre.
Cowhick & Whitcomb's stock of dry
goods, boots, shoes, etc. has been sold to
V. Baker. The purchaser will continue
the sale for three days.
Young VIM. Strong and another
painter confined in the jail were yes
terday engaged iu decorating the interior
of the new cells at the county jail.
A. G. McGregor will serve an iniunc-
ton upon the city tax collector in a few
days restraining the municipality from
collecting the taxes levied upon his prop
srty.
Ademurrer and two answers to amend
ed cross petitions in the First National
bank-Swan Bros. attachment suit were
filed in the office of the clerk of court yes
terday.
The Union Pacific complains that about
1000 of their freight cans are being used
by merchants along the line for store
houses. This is a matter for the company
to regulate.
The only transfer filed at the county
clerks Office yesterday was for lots 3 and
4, block 429. s. Hermann sold the
property to the Cheyenne & Burlington
fer $3,450.
A telegram was received in this city
yesterday from R. G. Ingersoll announc-
ing that he was forming a smelling and
reduction company in New York to ope-
rate in Wyoming.
Prof. Marsh, of Yale college, is about
to ship East a mammoth fossil which was
recently uneaTthed in the vicinity of Rock
Greek, WYo. Five men have been ex-
cavating for the find two years.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hiram Wheeler died at the residence of
Charles Goodsell at 6 o'clock last evening.
"' hcCici ID Out Vi Iue Guy, anu Tue
funeral will not occur until his return.
John Reilly, charged with creating a
disturbance at the Western hotel Sunday
night, was arraigned before Judge Lee
yesterday. The case was postponed until
10 day, when Johns witnesses are ex-
pected to materialize.
Posters are about the city announcing
an excursion from Omaha and other Ne
oraska points to this city. The affair is
In the interests of the proprietors of an
addition adjacent to the city. The visit
ors will arrive on the 9th inst.
Guy II. Thompson, the Denver lawyer
who represented the Chinese in their in,
V~estlgation of the mysterious death of a
1ellowcountryman in an alley back of the
Phoenix block last spring, has just died
after a lingering illness in Washington.
The free-for-all purse offered by the
wyoming Fair Association is $400. Horse
men about the city think this amount too
small and propose to increase it to $500.
with the latter sum as an inducement,
the best horses in the West would CON
pete for places.
The new steel cells are in position at the
county jail and will be occupied 80 soon as
the plumbers have finished arranging the
sewerage. A gentleman yesterday tried
10 sever a bar of the corridor with a fine
NE The tool was ruined before produc-
ing the slightest mark upon the bar.
The air brakes on a freight train de-
sending the grade between this city and
Sherman failed to work yesterday. The
crew gained control of the train at Gran.
ie canyon, thereby a~yerting a terrible
wreck. A fireman on the wild train
Jumped from the engine and was badly